Brick.ie The Irish Association for Adult Fans of LEGO®

I brought this to the meeting yesterday...

LEGO Tree in Blossom by James Shields, on Flickr

Cherry blossom tree built mostly with flower pieces. The main technique is to keep the flower petals on their sprues, connected my stem pieces.

A run down of the method follows...

1. First attach stalks to each corner of the flower sprue.

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My ent from The Tower of Orthanc set looked a bit lonely so I built some company for him.

Feel free to comment, criticize or offer advice.

Ent 1 by Gallowglass01, on Flickr

Also thanks Duq for advice on how to post and link pics from Flickr.

A big thank you to Rod Gillies over on Flickr for inspiration (downright plagiarism) from his "Lakehouse Kidnap" creation. I did ask for his permission first. Below is the link to Rods pic.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/24681250@N07/5253363913/in/photostream/

All comments, criticisms and advice are welcome.

PS, what's the best size to upload a pic here?. I went far too big initially and had to start over. Maybe it's a little on the small side now. (640 x 480)

This is old moc (~ 2010) I came across a picture of. It's an experimentation with indoor lighting. Not the best quality photo but probably better than the food.

I found that the white LED light's cold colour could be improved by using quality street wrappers...

Small addition to the farm house, a small meandering river and irrigated crop field. River does need some more work but I ran out of tan and blue plates.

Noel

Howdy neighbour!

This is a build I have been working on for quite some time. Based on a fictional Wild West townland of Bodie, the scene is the moments before a shoot-out between unscrupulous bank robbers and unlucky member of law enforcement.

Noel

It's my first MOC what I show here.
My dream is to have a huge fireplace, where you can fit a man (not about to bake), but one that immediately cast our eyes upon entry to the room.
Decorated with rifles, sabers, pistols.

I built this few monts ago.
It is interesting the brick's what I used to build they are just from 70810 MetalBeard-s Sea Cow.

Flickr - https://www.flickr.com/photos/108376497@N06/sets/72157644926070306/

Here is a Garda van I built. The last two photos show the size in relation to sets 7286 and 70804. The van itself has working flashing lights and siren (I used light and sound elements from 1980's). I'll probably add extra stickers at the back and side windows at some stage.

I used this photo as my main reference material:
http://www.police-car-photos.com/picture/number1486.asp

Here is a picture of my AVIVA stadium MOC created for the eurobricks 2014 event. It finished joint third with the winner being the excellent Dresden church designed by brick.ie member Rolli.

Aviva Stadium by Mr. Tomato Bread, on Flickr

Here is the winning model by Rolli

Dresden Frauenkirche by Mr. Tomato Bread, on Flickr